A few years later, the Neutrinos drifted into Port Isabel, Texas where a 19 year-old college dropout named Constance Hockaday was living with her parents. Hockaday, a rather alienated young woman, immediately became enthralled with the idea of living on a boat and not paying rent. Before long, she was on the boat, so to speak. Her life hasn’t been the same since.
While I might be slightly squeamish about staying in Austrian Andreas Strauss’s open-to-the-public, semi-outdoor, pay-what-you-want dasparkhotel, I love the idea of using drain pipe sections as small outdoor structures.
I’ve seen wooden branch hangers before, but had never thought of trying to make one myself. This simple woodsy branch hanger tutorial just uses a branch and the hook from a wire coat hanger. I’m not sure that it would hold up to anything heavy, but you wouldn’t want to hide the hanger with a […]
The Aeromodeller II project is a design for a zero-emission, autonomous, nomad hydrogen-based airship that will never land. The ship regenerates its fuel, creating hydrogen from wind power and the rain on its skin. When it depletes its energy reserves, the ship needs to drop anchor and rest, in order to replenish its energy in […]
Though I’m having a hard time imagining the particular circumstances where I would need to do this, I am thoroughly impressed by its resourcefulness and cleverness.
The Brooklyn-based Bamboo Bike Studio (BBS), where DIY’ers make their own bike frame out of bamboo in a two-day workshop, is opening satellite studios and branching out into the assembly of steel frame bikes.
Here’s a great step-by-step from Hip House Girl on making a fountain for your backyard. A decorative pot and the sound of running water can make your garden even more feng shui and magical.
